Hi Garreth! On behalf of the little family that's been growing around Robinhood's terrific project, I welcome you, and feel honoured that we have snagged your first post!

:)

That loop is cool and sounds very video-gamey.

Hey, have you read what's been said about possible musical directions for the game so far, and checked the links to all the examples? I'd love to know if you agree or disagree on anything said, and what your thoughts in general are.

I'd also love to hear more of your tunes, if that's alright! (they don't have to be used for Wilbot if you don't want, I was just really interested because I liked your clip!)

Thanks!

It's totally up to you, and I'm happy to hear your thoughts, either way -- thanks again for your interest!

feels like i havvent done anywhere near enough to be bothered ressurecting this, but anyway, ive not written much new, but ive been finishing off bits and bobs and i want to get all the ones ive done finished before i continue:)

termites
http://midishrine.com/midi/39153.mid

added a bit of square at the end, finished it up so it should loop nicely. i dont know if it needs another section? i think its alright as is, but its hard to tell how repetitive it will be:) guess thats what happens when i write without a target length:)


Title
http://midishrine.com/midi/39154.mid

even less added here,tbh. especially since its just a menu/titlescreen thing:)

Wow, alot of text for very few updates. NC, and indeed anyone else, please, id like to know whether you think they need anything else:)
hopefully ill finish up some more later/tomorrow:)



Edited by bannanawalrus - 16 December 2010 at 12:57pm

YO!

ice outdoor v1.1
alot more on this. dunno why, it was just one of those songs where i kept wanting to add more:)

http://midishrine.com/midi/39169.mid

thats all for now, but theres some boss music on the way, i swear!!

Imo the music should be more happy, as the characters are very happy (lol)
More of a personal preference maybe

Is the game out yet? Or are you guys still makin it?

hahah! I'm glad I've found someone on this site who knows musical theory!

@Chris Button, its being coded in GML, so it exports .exe and it can handle midis just fine, but thanks anyway.

@Finoli- Thats actually not a bad idea....

EDIT: Was Bored. Made This.

;)

Edited by bannanawalrus - 19 December 2010 at 6:42am

That can be the music when the character dies or sometin like that. I'm pretty good at makin music too so I'ma go try something out right now.

I'm not that good at it so don't be surprised if it is really crappy.

It was? Well, then forget what I said, I don't think it fits
This of course is completely up to you, I'm just charing my opinion

I made the music! Idk how it would fit in with the game but... Eh. Here it is:

EDIT

Fuk... I can't upload to myspace cause GarageBand can't save it in a format that myspace can use...

EDIT

Got it working. Here it is:http://www.myspace.com/ebot24/music/playlists/gamer36-s-playlist-1585338

Edited by Gamer36 - 19 December 2010 at 9:54pm

Yeah...

Slick looking animations. I like the old-school look with the more modern-level animations.

As a personal aesthetic preference, I'd like to see less green in the final thing. I just don't like mass fields of green, or green & purple as a color combo. Maybe some warm colors in other worlds to excite the mind.

Ah thanks!  I've downloaded the program... The demonstrations look pretty nice ;)

I'm good thanks, kinda trailed off on this cos' i wasn't sure what stage it was at or if it was still going on.

I've been busy with some pretty hectic personal stuff, and also having to learn spanish in the space of a little over a year (goddamned GSCE's :/), but i've still been composing on the side, so i'm ready to leap back into action :P!

Also i agree we have more than enough enemies for now, the only things i can think of is a fire boss and an ice boss, and maybe some fire enemies, but we dont need those until we get to that. We should probably start designing some levels soon?

Yup the nitpicking is fine by me. I have a spanish test on tuesday and then im free for about a month before the next one :)

Today I randomly decided to have a listen to bananawalrus' ice outdoor
song. The end of the URL is 39169, but I decided to type it out instead of
just clicking the link, anyways I put an 8 on the end by accident and this
is what I got LOL.

http://midishrine.com/midi/39168.mid

Cool explosion, RH -- and looking forward to the whale. A mole should also be really cute. Here's where you posted your first take on one, and I'm also curious about what you think of my suggestions about it here.

@ ChrisButton: sounds like a Vanessa Carlton song!

I personally like the health bar with the blue interior more, although I'm

Back again!

Currently Termites!, Ending, , Celebrate and Title are completely finished, methinks.

I think i've more or less finished up Volcano too, it just needs a little crit and a spot of tweaking/tidying i think, if you like what i added that is (if you don't, as ever, tell me) :) The bit before the quieter section should be maybe 2x as long, but i cut it down so you could get to what i added faster. Or maybe the riff that plays in the quiet bit could repeat afterwards but over the louder section? Idk.

Volcano

ALSO, i've been busy just generally writing whatever comes to mind without any real purpose, and here is one of my favorites which you're free to use if it fits :)

Misc song 1 (you may need to up your volume, the recorder is a bit quiet, for me anyway)

Edit: Also, blue interior, and make the end the same as the end of the full health bar. Nice whale - do we have a splash animation? I can't remember. :)

Edited by bannanawalrus - 25 April 2011 at 11:06am

It's Anvilstudio, it's free, easy to use and comes with about 200 mediocre MIDI instruments and no capacity to add more or use any effects whatsoever. I'm saving up for FLStudio and a midi sequencer keyboard thingy ;)

Edit: I changed the instruments a little on Ice Outdoor. I think i prefer the new one but i'm not sure. It's not alot of a difference anyway. Thoughts?

Ice Outdoor v1.2

And here's the old one: Ice outdoor v1.1

Also, if you want i'll have a hunt around for sound effects if you can come up with what we need. This could be useful.

Edited by bannanawalrus - 26 April 2011 at 11:14am

Thanks alot! It's nice to know someone other than me and NC like it ;)

I found another WIP song :D it was originally for something else but it wasn't used so i thought i'd post it here. Obviously it's only the melody but i think i can spruce it up a bit if you like the vibe.

Relax

Edited by bannanawalrus - 27 April 2011 at 11:32am

@ bannanawalrus:

Volcano 1.1 (41220): I quite like the new stuff you added for the song. By 'quiet bit', do mean the section from about 32sec to about 48sec? I think I do prefer it on its own, but it is very cinematic, the type of thing that would play during an event, rather than just being a normal part of a level song's repeating loop -- however, I don't know yet how much the music should 'groove' in the background (so that, whether the player notices the music directly or not, it doesn't actually interrupt by standing out suddenly -- sorry, that's probably making too much out of a subtle thing) without some testing (re-listening to the Klonoa Phantomile soundtrack maybe?) but for now, extending the section before that starts would probably be a safe compromise!

It also sounds like you lessened the bounce between the left/right speakers at the beginning, but since I really loved that, perhaps for a compromise an even better effect than actually leaving alternate speakers entirely would be to sort of change the sound scape to seem quieter (an effect like this is used in many pop songs to make the singer sound like they are using an old-time microphone, or are being played through an old-time radio or 'grammaphone', and I quite like it in sparing amounts). But I loved the way it switched 'up' and 'down' (juxtaposition is something I really like in music -- and I guess so do people who, for example, put things like sudden falsetto into their songs) and it would be cool to keep the effect. There's a nice 'quieting' effect at the end, which I am guessing you achieved by dropping out some of the instruments or whatever, and that sounded good, too (though I don't know if a looping song will take some of that away, since it won't actually be the end anymore...).

Misc song 1 1.0 (41221): This has a nice Eastern feel to it (pentatonic scale, maybe?) and I quite like it -- a lot of promise, and definitely evocative of place. Maybe underwater or some kind of ruin -- what do you think?

Ice Outdoor 1.2 (41238): The new opening is, I think, much prettier (was it changed to a harp instrument?) but I don't like the cymbal crash sound (sounds a bit like a 'baking sheet' or a bin lid) and the instrument that comes in at about 48sec is far too sharp for me. At about 25sec, it goes into a slow bit, but I think it hasn't had the dynamic part it broke into for long enough yet -- it makes it feel a bit unsteady to switch gears that soon after 'breaking out' -- though I do really like how it comes back quite strong after the slow part. But if that wasn't esoteric enough of a critique for you, I also think the drum track doesn't have enough of a comfortable, 'ambling' rhythm. Yeah, that's me, makin' it easy on ya....

Relax 1.0 (41264): This difinitely was relaxing! It has a very sweet, lullaby sound to it, so I do like it, but if it can survive a little impolite manhandling, the only place I think of that it might fit into the game, off the top of my head, would maybe be a beach-type level? I wouldn't want to force it into something it wasn't meant for, though, so what do you think?

And good luck with LMMS!

Yeah, the longer 'wait' of the whale looks better! It should probably pop up to the top a bit faster, though?